Can Keir Starmer make the public trust politics again?

The News Agents

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🗓️ 24 September 2024

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Keir Starmer made an hour long speech with the one funny moment carefully tucked away 55 minutes in. It was the first conference speech from a Labour prime minister for 15 years, and the hall went wild for every mention of the victory they’d just witnessed. But after that? What was there? A promise from the Prime Minister to restore trust in politics again and make people see it as a force for good. Is the country in the mood to do that?

We talk to health secretary Wes Streeting and look at the wider context of today's speech.

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0:00.0	The Newsagents podcast is brought to you by HSBC UK, opening up a world of opportunity.
0:08.2	This is a global player original podcast.
0:13.0	We will stabilise our economy.
0:15.6	Clear out the Tory rock, fix the foundation and deliver the mandate of change.
0:20.8	A Britain built to last, built with
0:22.9	respect, built with pride, because together we have shown that Britain belongs to you. Thank you,
0:30.6	Conquerque. This is the victory lap of Kirstama's speech and the crowd are helping him along. It was the most rousing, possibly the only
0:41.0	really rousing moment of an hour-long speech, which flagged in parts but spoke to the importance of
0:49.0	service of politics and service of government. It was Stama's theme and he wasn't going to move from it.
0:57.0	It didn't have the optimism and the hope of Blair in 97, but the economic circumstances are very
1:03.4	different today than they were then. What Keir Stahma's asking for is patience from the British
1:10.2	people for the long-term rebuilding of Britain.
1:14.5	I guess the question is, are people in these impatient times prepared to wait for the good times to come?
1:23.6	Welcome to the newsagents.
1:28.3	The Newsagents. The Newsagents.
1:30.3	It's John. It's Lewis.
1:32.3	It's Emily. And to take you behind the curtain, we are recording this before we've actually heard the leader's speech.
1:40.3	Kirstama and his wife, Vic, Victoria, have just walked through the hall.
1:45.0	His speech is about half an hour away.
1:49.0	And it is a complicated day for Kirstama on many levels,
1:53.0	because right here he is the leader of the Labour Party,
1:57.0	and he has to set up a vision for his party to take to the country to remind everyone why they voted for that landslide victory.
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